Similes
This type of figurative language compares two things using the words "like" or "as."
Answer: What is a simile?
Words like "BOOM," "ZAP," and "TICK-TOCK" that imitate sounds are called this.
What is onomatopoeia?
This is a huge exaggeration, like saying "I’ve told you a million times!"
Answer: What is a hyperbole?
If a task is very easy, you might say it is a "piece of ______."
Cake
"The classroom was a zoo" is an example of this, because it says one thing is another.
Answer: What is a metaphor?
"Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers" is a famous example of this.
Answer: What is alliteration?
Giving human qualities to an object, like "The wind whistled," is called this.
Personification
If it is "raining cats and dogs," it means it is raining very ______.
Answer: What is hard (or heavily)?
Finish this simile: "After gym class, the student was as thirsty as a _______."
What is a camel (or similar desert animal)?
To have alliteration, words in a sentence must start with the same _________.
Answer: What is sound?
In the sentence "My alarm clock yells at me every morning," this is the object being personified.
Alarm Clock
This idiom means you are feeling sick: "Under the _______."
Answer: What is weather?
In the phrase "Life is a roller coaster," this is the thing being compared to life.
Answer: What is a roller coaster?
Which of these is onomatopoeia: "The snake hissed" or "The snake was a rope"?
Answer: What is "The snake hissed"?
"I’m so hungry I could eat a horse" is an example of this.
Answer: What is a hyperbole?
If you "break a leg" before a play, what are people actually wishing you?
Answer: What is good luck?
True or False: "I like pizza" is a simile.
What is False? (It uses "like," but it isn't comparing two unlike things).
Create an alliterative sentence using the letter "S" about a shark.
(Answers will vary).
Identify the personification in this sentence: "The stars winked at us from the night sky."
Answer: What is "winked"? (Stars cannot actually wink).
To "let the cat out of the bag" means you did this.
Answer: What is told a secret?